Bookgeist vs Tomeum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookgeist
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Bookgeist is an app for organizing your books, tracking your reading, and preserving everything that happens along the way. But it’s much more than a library manager. You can organize books, collections, and series; track reading sessions and progress; save quotes; build your reading history; explore statistics, goals, and reading memories; and create a notebook that connects characters, places, theories, notes, and everything else you discover between the pages. Bookgeist tries to preserve something that usually gets lost: not just which books you’ve read, but what those books left with you. YOUR LIBRARY Organize all your books and create a space of your own for your collection. • A complete library with multiple views, filters, and search. • Manual and smart collections. • Series and sagas with their own dedicated space. • Favorites, TBRs, and personal lists. • Built to handle large libraries, too. YOUR READING Bookgeist stays with you while you read. • Track reading sessions and reading time. • Plan what you want to read next. • Follow your progress and reading streaks. • Explore your activity and reading calendar. • Keep a complete history for every book. • Discover statistics, goals, and your year in reading. • Track loans and purchases. THE NOTEBOOK This is where Bookgeist becomes a little less conventional. The Notebook isn’t just for writing notes. You can save quotes, characters, places, creatures, organizations, theories, images, audio, and other elements from your reading. And then you can connect them. Link characters to one another, connect places with events, build family trees, follow theories, or create a map of everything you’ve discovered inside a book. A book may end. Your notebook doesn’t have to. Bookgeist is free to download and use, with no limits on books or reading sessions. Bookgeist Studio unlocks advanced features through a subscription. BOOKGEIST STUDIO Studio expands Bookgeist for readers who want to take their library and reading much further. • Full series features, progress tracking, and notebooks shared across all books in a series. • Favorite quotes and books, rankings, Tier Lists, and Wrap-ups. • Upcoming releases and reminders. • Achievements, badges, and collectible items. • Your year in reading and special shelves: Hall of Fame, yearly reads, and your full library in alphabetical order. • More themes, fonts, and alternative views. • Detailed analysis of your library, reading habits, and spending. • AI-powered features: recognize books and entire shelves to import them into your library, generate images of characters from your own descriptions, and much more. PRIVATE. LOCAL. YOURS. Your books, notes, and reading history live on your phone. No account required, and the core features work offline. Your library isn’t a public profile, and your notes remain private unless you choose to share them with someone. It’s your library. It stays with you. AND GEISTY Geisty is the little spirit that lives inside Bookgeist. He’ll keep you company while you read and appear in different corners of the app. His name shares the same root as Bookgeist: Geist, the German word for “spirit.” Bookgeist also plays on the idea of Zeitgeist — the “spirit of an age” — to imagine something like the spirit of books. The one that lives within every book. The one that runs through our reading. And, above all, the one that stays with us long after we’ve finished. That’s the kind of place I’m trying to build in Bookgeist. A place for your books. For your reading. And for everything they leave with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tomeum
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Every book becomes an exhibit: cover, edition, dates, rating, photos of favourite pages, quotes and your own impressions. Years grow into halls; feelings and genres gather into quiet statistics about your taste. Never about pace, streaks or goals. • Add books in seconds by barcode scan, search or by hand • Keep photos, quotes and impressions with every book • Walk your reading years in the diary and the archives • The Hall of Feelings and the Hall of Genres: what the museum learned about your taste from your own records • Works fully offline, no account required Museum Keeper subscription ($19.99/year with a 14-day free trial, or $2.99/month) adds cloud backup and sync between devices, the seasonal Autumn appearance, and opens the museum’s halls. Reading and recording stay free forever. Terms of Use: https://evgocheredko.github.io/tomeum-legal/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://evgocheredko.github.io/tomeum-legal/privacy/
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Verdict
Bookgeist and Tomeum are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bookgeist sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.90 per month and Tomeum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Bookgeist | Tomeum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luis Gonzalez Lopez | Evgeniia Ocheredko |
In-app purchases
Bookgeist
- Bookgeist Studio Monthly$3.901 Month
- Bookgeist Studio Yearly$44.901 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Stamps 20$2.90
- Stamps 40$3.90
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- Movie night$8.99
- Stamps 100$9.90
- Treat me to a book!$17.90
- Bookgeist Lifetime$79.90
Tomeum
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year









